Re: [cobalt-users] Implications of upgrading Perl?

[Bruce Timberlake <Bruce.Timberlake@xxxxxxx>]

> I once successfully upgraded perl to 5.6.1 with info from
> http://www.oakbox.com/articles/upgrade_perl.html and everything
> worked OK after. The author does stress to include the Cobalt::
> libraries when compiling...!

I read that article... not bad, but a little complicated and never
really seems to explain what he's doing.

I tried this on my own RaQ4 and got it working just fine:

*** UNOFFICIAL AND NOT SUPPORTED ***

1. shell into RaQ4 as root
2. get perl-5.6.1.tar.gz from ftp.perl.org
3. tar zxvf perl-5.6.1.tar.gz
4. cd perl-5.6.1
5. sh Configure
-Dotherlibdirs='/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005:/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux'
-des
6. make && make test && yes make install

(the 'yes' in step 6 is due to a keypress required during the 'make
install' step)

Again, remember this is UNOFFICIAL AND NOT SUPPORTED... :)

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Bruce Timberlake
Sun Cobalt Technology Engineer
Sun Microsystems, Inc.